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509: Connect the picture of the battlefield to the horse and the dish.

508: The picture of the book lying amidst broken glass is a photograph from the infamous Tiger Woods automobile mishap. The book is the physics tome “Get a Grip on Physics” by John Gribbin. Gribbin, a science writer with a dozens of books on popular science to his credit, shot up on Amazon rankings as a result of curious people buying his books after spotting “Get a Grip..” in the photograph. Allegedly, in a February 1988 article in Nature, Gribbin was the first person to suggest that the greenhouse effect might be reduced by adding iron to the oceans as a “fertiliser”. This concept of “Iron Fertilization” has gained currency in recent years among climate researchers as a potential method to reverse global warming.

Battle of Marengo
The painting is Napoleon Crossing the Alps by Jacques-Louis David (My wife’s a fan of his art and I’m lucky to have seen one of the versions of this painting in person and that’s how I recognized it)
Napoleon crossed the alps before the battle of Marengo
The dish is Chicken Marengo. According to legend, Napoleon got hungry and wanted a quick dish after the battle and his chef improvised with whatever was available and made this creation.